Suicide leads to removal of senior official
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A leading official in Sichuan province has been suspended for his role in the forcible demolition of a private building that led a woman to take her own life by setting herself on fire.
The incident is currently under investigation and severe penalties will be meted out to those involved if they are found to have broken the law, said Ma Xu, chief of the Jinniu district government of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan.
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Up:Tang Fuzhen is seen setting fire to herself in this TV screen grab. Below: She is carried down from the roof and taken to hospital where she subsequently succumbed to her injuries. [China Daily] |
According to sources, the incident in Jinhua village in Jinniu arose after Hu Changming, a local businessman, paid 40,000 yuan (US$5,882) to rent land in Jinhua village in 1996. He subsequently built a 2,000 sq m three-floor garment processing plant there.
In August 2007, the district government decided to link two roads and lay underground pipes in the area and needed the land occupied by Hu's building for the project. The district's urban management and law enforcement bureau sat down to talk about compensation on 19 occasions but no agreement was reached.
Zhong Changlin, the official who has been suspended, claimed Hu was seeking compensation of more than 8 million yuan (US$1.17 million) but the city was not prepared to pay that much.
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